[Dshield] NETBIOS Probe

Kelly Martin <kellym at fb00.fb.org> said:
> I've disagreed with the categorization of 137 as "possible firewall
> misconfiguration" as well. While it is true that certain operating systems
> routinely send probes out on port 137 (for no good reason), and those
probes
> are not at all hostile, this is no reason to consider it a
> "misconfiguration" when those illicit probes are detected. And there is
> enough hostile activity on 137, 138, and 139 that traffic on these ports
> from untrusted sources should be treated as potentially hostile and
blocked.
>> Kelly
I'll certainly agree with you on that point. As a rule, I block ALL NETBIOS
services ports if the originator is not on my local network - I certainly
don't have a problem with Windows networking internally, but no way to I
want that stuff open to the Internet. I certainly don't understand why this
should be considered a "misconfiguration".
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